Planet PDF Forum Archive

Wowsers! This is page is old, head to the LIVE Planet PDF Forum. It features more than 10 conferences, covering everything from beginner to in-depth developer and pre-press discussions. If you wish to continue... one & two archive covers 1999-2011 (160,000 pages).

Is there anything out in the world that can do the following on a server.
1) Search though a PDF one page at a time. Looking at the left hand side of the page for text that would match a collection of data
2) If there is a match of the text; then take that page of the pdf and create a new pdf naming it what the current PDF is + the matched text
3) Delete all the pages that did have a match and rename the current PDF

That is the basic functionality. Is there an application that can do this?

OK, so you want to stamp your document. Maybe you need to give reviewers some advice about the document's status or sensitivity. This tip from author Ted Padova demonstrates how to add stamps with the Stamp Tool along with related comments.